Culture / week3 / soongki Kim

Human symbolic expression developed as prehistoric humans reached behavioral modernity.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

1. Summary
  First, the easiest way to think about culture begins with thinking about the difference between nature and nurture.Humans have certain forms and abilities because of biology and genetics. However, human biological nature does not solely determine who we are. That is why culture is necessary.
 As an example of the culture that the scholar thought of, anthropologists thought that all humans evolved equally according to the theory of evolution, and that all humans should have culture in some way. And they were wary of using biological evolution to explain differences between certain cultures.
 A culture that is most easily understood as a way of life in a particular society includes, but is not limited to, a variety of aspects, including, but not limited to, norms, values, beliefs or expressive symbols. As a result, a culture can include anything that provides meaning and grant meaning among a group of people. As shown at the beginning of the chapter, the meaning attached to the same object or symbol may differ depending on the culture currently in use.

2. What was interesting/What did we learn
  When we think of the word "culture," you will most likely think of the simple concept of things, such as food culture, traditional clothing and houses in other countries.
 And in addition to these, culture is a medium used to communicate through complex networks and social interactions of customs, using multidisciplinary forms to represent accumulated knowledge and ideas that exist in a particular human group or culture.
 There is a culture that as society progresses there is a culture that does not stay in the past but changes together and declines in the process, and there is a newly born culture.
 I felt that we needed to understand humans and society while continuing to study this ever-changing culture.

3. Discussion point
 Culture is a thing that changes with society.
 So, why does culture deteriorate or become new in this process?